SF Sketchfest 2020: Porchlight Storytelling

For the past seventeen years, Porchlight has been San Francisco’s premier storytelling series. Each month, co-founders Beth Lisick and Arline Klatte invite six people to tell ten-minute true stories without using notes or memorization. Past storytellers include some of the area’s most entertaining school bus drivers, mushroom hunters, politicians, socialites, sex workers, musicians, authors, systems analysts, and social workers. This is a partially seated show—arrive early for a seat. ($28, 21+)

Artists

Arline Klatte

Arline Klatte is the co-host of the successful San Francisco-based storytelling show, Porchlight.

Beth Lisick

Beth Lisick is a writer and actor from the San Francisco Bay Area, currently living in Brooklyn. She is the author of six books, including the New York Times bestseller “Everybody Into the Pool” and the novel “Edie on the Green Screen” (out 3/26/20). She is also co-founder of the… Read More →

Bobcat Goldthwait

Over the past several months, Bobcat has been on the creative fast track. As one of the most recognizable comedians in show business, Goldthwait unleashed his one of a kind brand of comedy in his new Showtime one hour special entitled “You Don’t Look the Same Either.” The new… Read More →

Bryan Safi

Bryan is the co-host and co-creator of the “Throwing Shade” podcast, live show and TV show. As an actor, you’ve seen him on shows like “Modern Family,” “The Big Bang Theory,” “Superstore,” and as Charlie in the Will Ferrell/Kristen Wiig Lifetime original movie opus “A Deadly Adoption… Read More →

Erinn Hayes

Erinn Hayes most recently wrapped the highly anticipated film “Bill & Ted Face The Music,”  also starring Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter. Hayes stars as “Princess Elizabeth,” wife to Keanu Reeves’ character. This marks the third installment of the franchise and is anticipated for… Read More →

Josh Gondelman

Josh Gondelman is a writer and comedian who incubated in Boston before moving to New York City, where he currently lives and works as a writer and producer for “Desus and Mero” on Showtime. Previously, he spent five years at “Last Week Tonight with John Oliver,” where he earned two… Read More →

Marc Capelle

Marc Capelle is a San Francisco native musician, composer, arranger, and producer.He’s played with 100’s of acts including Virgil Shaw, the Fresh & Onlys, Jason Lytle, American Music Club, Tommy Guerrero, Kelley Stoltz, Third Eye Blind, Margaret Cho, and quartet-style gospel pioneers… Read More →

Marcella Arguello

Too lazy to shoot hoops and too tall to model, Marcella Arguello stands over 6 feet. Although she may be taller than most men, the only thing more intimidating than her height is her comedy. Marcella mixes a combination of genuine reason with a sexy suggestion of street. Deemed as… Read More →